Example sentences of "[pers pn] are nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel Profitt , 21 , of Erdington , Birmingham , and three other City supporters , were told by John Pryce , chairing a magistrates ' court hearing yesterday : ‘ You are nothing more than looters . |
| 2 | You must want something , or else you are nothing . |
| 3 | See where this affair with a nobody will lead you ; I would have made you the greatest actress of your generation , and now you are nothing and no one . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You are nothing to me , nothing , ’ said Troy heartlessly . |
| 5 | Another woman observed : ‘ You are nothing . |
| 6 | Without your art , you are nothing . |
| 7 | You are nothing but a … . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You are nothing more than a spoiled , bitter child , ’ he grated , ‘ a child with built-in petulance and your mother 's way of seeing no other needs but her own . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If you do n't know your roots , you are nothing , ’ he says . |
| 10 | ‘ Take it from me , Wilson , ’ said the headmaster , ‘ you are nothing like Napoleon . |
| 11 | No Jean , you ai n't got ta say who you are nothing like that bye ! |
| 12 | Asked if he knew anything of fox dumping , he said : ‘ Obviously we are nothing to do with it ’ . |
| 13 | This leads to the notion that we are nothing more than chemical and mechanical devices , albeit extremely complex and wonderfully integrated ones . |
| 14 | If we do not care , then we do not love , if we do not love , then we are nothing . |
| 15 | We are all but a part of a whole which has its own , its distinct , its other meaning : we are not ourselves , we are crossroads , meeting places , points on a curve , we can not exist independently for we are nothing but signs , conjunctions , aggregations . |
| 16 | " Some of the older boys at school say we are nothing more than dancing puppets of the French ! " |
| 17 | ‘ Please , ca n't you do something for us ; we are nothing , the least of things , why should anyone pay any attention to us ? |
| 18 | Separately , we are nothing . |
| 19 | We are nothing if not pragmatic and we like to see success . |
| 20 | Once the election has been completed , they revert to a condition of slavery : they are nothing , ( Rousseau , quoted by Pulzer , 1975 , p. 18 ) . |
| 21 | They are nothing like the divers we have tried to photograph and largely failed to capture because of their timidity . |
| 22 | But they are nothing out of the ordinary . ’ |
| 23 | COOK 'S NOTE : Commercially prepared Melba toasts are available , but they are nothing like the real thing . |
| 24 | But pricey as the drinks at Kamieniolomy are , they are nothing compared to the girls . |
| 25 | If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid . |
| 26 | They are the tools through which life manifests and functions on the material plane , but without the animating principle — the life force or vital energy — they are nothing more than complex chemistry . |
| 27 | They are nothing worth looking at , for they have green hair and green teeth and little pigs ' eyes and long red noses and shod arms more like a flipper than any respectable arm that could do a day 's work . |
| 28 | They are nothing more than a British version of New Kids On The Block . |
| 29 | They are nothing but ‘ foolishness ’ or ‘ egotism ’ . |
| 30 | In other words , they are nothing like a representative sample of British society . |